Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

Author: bell hooks
Publisher: South End Press
Year: 1999
Pages: 194
ISBN: 978-0896084568

bell hooks addresses the inner well-being of black women and how their development is shaped by the daily assault of institutionalized structures of domination. Tackling such issues as addiction, truth-telling, work, grieving, spirituality, eroticism, reconcilliation and forgiveness, community, and estrangement from nature, hooks shares numerous strategies for self-recovery that can heal individuals and empower effective struggle against racism, sexism, and consumer capitalism.